CPD Courses

Continue your professional training with the NCTJ’s Journalism Skills Academy. Choose from a range of courses covering different topics in different formats including virtual training and e-learning.
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Time management and prioritisation

Lunch and learn - Learn to juggle the demands of the busy day-to-day with effective prioritisation skills to improve the workload of you and your team

Being an effective communicator

Masterclass - Discover news ways to use communication to motivate your team, influence others and make key changes

Reporting on the Royal Family

E-learning - This course will highlight the complexities attached to reporting on the Royal Family including legal restrictions, royal protocols and ethical considerations.

Connecting with communities

E-learning - this course looks at the importance of understanding your audience and how best to engage with them.

Introduction to TikTok

Lunch and learn - this short course will show how to get the most out of TikTok and how it can be a useful tool in amplifying your content and maximising its reach.

Developing interviewing skills – asking the questions that make great stories

Lunch and learn - this short session will be led by a leading industry professional with experience in how effective interviewing skills can benefit you in all fields of journalism from the newsroom to sport and feature writing.

Investigations and longer reads

Masterclass - This session is a masterclass on some of the key areas of investigative journalism including sources, interpreting data, Freedom of Information requests and the basics of planning and producing an investigation.